The Behind the Back Dribble in Basketball

Video Transcript

"Something, another move that can throw the defense off, that might be effective during the game, and you want to be careful; you don't want to just use it for a hot dogging move, or maybe you do. During the game it is called the behind the back dribble. When you're dribbling behind the back, the thing you want to do, you want to get to the point where you can dribble the ball without looking at it, which is really the most difficult part of the behind the back dribble, because you can't see what's going on. So, you want to try to dribble the ball, knowing where the ball is going. And the only way you can do that is to constantly practice, constantly practice. And this will also work on some other things like, you having a better feel for the ball and kind of knowing where it's going whenever you're, whenever you're dribbling. So you kind of know where your hand, the way your hands are moving it, so you know, you can kind of go by feel of where the ball's going to be. And as you do it, you can get faster with it and eventually you might get to the point where you can do some other things. So, the behind the back dribble can be really effective during the game, especially if you're coming one way and then you get defense and you don't have time to use the cross-over; you don't have space to use the cross-over dribble because the defense might be a little too close. So, sometimes what you can do is you can go immediately behind the back and switch directions. So, there you have it, the behind the back dribble."